Calls are still coming in at work and at home today. From before 7am at work according to one of the other lecturers who turns up early for work. Still no word from telecom about the situation ans why they can not trace the calls or do anything about them

Simon

Calls stopped this afternoon still no word from Telecom about why they could not trace them

Simon

The calls last night ended by about 8:30 pm. I got another at 12:40am this morning before I unplugged the phone. The problems followed me to work again this morning starting at 9:31am. I have called Telecom and they could not find any national calls to my number. Apparently it might be an international number which they are currently checking.

I will update people here with what is happening.

I certainly hope that they find something, they should be able to work out who is ringing or else how could they charge people for calling me?!?

Simon

yep 10:10 - current.

Well I was wrong.

10am this morning it starts again. Well I suppose I have no phone for the weekend. This is just getting silly.

Well at least it has raised the issue of Net Neutrality, but really I don't have time for this.

Hi All,
Well all quiet on the calling front. The calls ended at 4pm today after the head of our IT support group talked to Telecom Corporate, being a big organisation sometimes helps :). I was also told that the calls to my home line and my work number where originating from an auto-dialler from another service provider. I will however follow Telecom's advice and contact the police about this issue. So there may be more about this later.

Russell, thank you for appearing on camera about this, it was appreciated.

Well back to marking and real work.

Simon

Just an update - my phone is still ringing constantly. And the Universities email system is currently also having problems.

Simon

Telecom can shape all traffic. I have not claimed that they are shaping all traffic merely that their terms and conditions for Go Large include p2p shaping. Those are the published terms and conditions rather than talking about what might be happening inside the network.

Oh, and by the way it is still happening at work this morning. A denial of service attack on my phone one call at a time, most bizarre.

Simon

Hi all,
Well in addition to bombarding my work phone, it happened at home from about 7 to 8:30pm.

Let me be quite clear about this, I do not believe that there is any sort of organised corportate attack on me. I think it is much more likely to be a young guy either inside or outside the company who is having some fun at my expense.

I would like to focus on the concept of Net Neutrality. The idea the we should pay for the amount of data that we use, and the speed of supply, rather than selecting the content of packets and selectively offering service. The only reason for selecting specific programs is to discriminate. Vodafone also have a "no VoIP" policy on their 3G mobile plan. Once we accept packet shaping based on the content of the packet we start down a dark path to some of the stuff happening in South Korea. In the US this is part of the Save The Internet debate